Here is the latest update from Cardiff Council, covering: take the steps needed to keep learners safe and learning; Cardiff's COVID-19 case and test numbers; and vaccination totals for Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan.

Take the steps needed to keep learners safe and learning

With schools, colleges and universities due to re-open following the summer holidays, parents, guardians and learners in Wales are being asked to take some steps to help keep COVID-19 risk down and learners learning.

Ahead of the start of the new school year, the Welsh Government is asking families and learners to continue to follow guidance on isolating, testing and vaccination, to minimise the risk of the spread of COVID-19 in our education settings.

• Get the vaccine if it's offered to you.
• Maintain regular handwashing.
• Any staff or learner with symptoms of COVID-19 - however mild - should stay at home and book a PCR test at their closest test site.
• Staff in primary schools - and staff and learners in secondary schools and colleges - without symptoms should take two lateral flow tests (LFTs), three days apart during the week leading up to their first day back. If the test is positive they should self-isolate, and book a PCR test.
• Going into the new term, staff in primary schools and staff and learners in secondary schools and colleges not showing symptoms should continue to take regular rapid lateral flow tests twice a week, and report the results online.
• Learners Years 7 and above should continue to wear face coverings on school and college transport.

Staff and learners should use any LFTs they have in their household first, or order tests online for free (https://test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/order-lateral-flow-kits), or collect them from community collection points or pharmacies. Schools will provide LFTs during term time.

Taking the tests regularly - especially at times when cases are higher - increases the chance of identifying infectious staff or learners before they leave the house to go to school, and unknowingly spread the virus to their friends or family.

Cardiff Cases and Tests - 7 Days Data (19 August - 25 August)

Based on latest figures from Public Health Wales

Data correct as of:

29 August 2021, 09:00

Cases: 1,111

Cases per 100,000 population: 302.8 (Wales: 386.6 cases per 100,000 population)

Testing episodes: 7,453

Testing per 100,000 population: 2,031.3

Positive proportion: 14.9% (Wales: 18.7% positive proportion)

Cardiff & Vale University Health Board Vaccination Status Update - 27 August

The total number of vaccination doses given by the Cardiff & Vale University Health Board so far, in both local authority areas:  703,059 (1^stDose: 367,717 2^ndDose: 335,342)

• 80 and over: 20,637 / 94.6% (1^stDose) 20,282 / 93% (2^ndDose)
• 75-79: 15,074 / 96.3% (1^stDose) 14,869 / 95% (2^ndDose)
• 70-74: 21,456 / 95.7% (1^stDose) 21,312 / 95% (2^ndDose)
• 65-69: 21,960 / 94.2% (1^stDose) 21,666 / 92.9% (2^ndDose)
• 60-64: 26,021 / 92.3% (1^stDose) 25,650 / 91% (2^ndDose)
• 55-59: 29,341 / 90.2% (1^stDose) 28,764 / 88.4% (2^ndDose)
• 50-54: 28,996 / 87.8% (1^stDose) 28,242 / 85.5% (2^ndDose)
• 40-49: 55,161 / 81.4% (1^stDose) 52,824 / 78% (2^ndDose)
• 30-39: 60,050 / 74.9% (1^stDose) 55,145 / 68.8% (2^ndDose)
• 18-29: 78,708 / 75.9% (1^stDose) 67,537 / 65.1% (2^ndDose)

• Care home residents: 1,876 / 98.5% (1^stDose) 1,852 / 97.3% (2^ndDose)
• Clinically extremely vulnerable: 11,305 / 93.3% (1^stDose) 11,064 / 91.3% (2^ndDose)
• Underlying Health Conditions: 46,186 / 89.8% (1^stDose) 44,357 / 86.3% (2^ndDose)

Data provided by CAVUHB

Based on the figures available at the time of publication. Please note that there may be minor amendments to data as it is validated over time.